Senior Associate, Data Scientist

at  BNY Mellon

Overview
Senior Associate, Data Scientist
At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.
We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.
We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Associate, Data Scientist to join our AI Hub Engineering team. This role is located in Dublin, Ireland and will be working in a hybrid capacity. (3 days a week in the office).

EMPLOYER DESCRIPTION:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world’s financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It’s the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

Develop AI/ML and Generative AI / LLM models to address challenging and impactful business problems for BNY, from proof of concepts to production-level deliverables, and produce thorough model evaluation and documentation in order to support decision and assess model risk
Define, create and maintain actionable insights using data science and statistical assessment. Prepare analysis to provide business decision-supporting facts
Thoroughly evaluate models and produce supporting documentation, thoroughly assess analysis results to ensure correct business decision-supporting
Develop innovative solutions and produce patent disclosures to demonstrate RD&I
Collaborate with colleagues and subject matter experts (SME) to obtain data and domain knowledge needed to conduct advanced reviews.
Continuously support and develop skills across AI/ML and GenAI and increase the business acumen
Stay up to date with the latest advances in AI/GenAI, technology innovations and banking industry trends. Share the findings with the team, recommend areas for improvement, and promote adoption of AI tools and platforms.
Be proactive and autonomous in solving problems, demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and urgency

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, WE’RE SEEKING THE FOLLOWING:

PhD’s degree in STEM degrees, or equivalent work experience with experience preferred in related fields (experience in financial data review is a plus)
Good understanding of applied data science, ML, NLP (e.g. feature engineering, supervised/unsupervised learning, predictive analytics, clustering, anomaly detection, sentiment analysis, entity recognition), and GenAI/LLM
Strong and proven hands-on experience implementing solutions (e.g. Python, scikit-learn, pandas, keras, TensorFlow/PyTorch, GPT models)
Strong communication skills (presenting, writing) and highly collaborative mindset
Innovative mindset and creative thinking demonstrated by publications and patents
At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:
America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
“Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023